Lucy

Retirement life: Playing with a great local nonprofit organization: Long Beach Century Club ( supporting amateur athletics in Long Beach, CA.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

😂 Xi Jinping sat on a tall chair while Trump was given a shorter chair with a soft cushion so he sinks & appears smaller than Xi

China humiliated Trump in front of the world. Just look at his scowl!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🇺🇸NEWS: FBI Director Kash Patel used a government Gulfstream V to fly his country singer girlfriend to a George Strait concert.
He watched the show from a luxury suite reported at $35,000 to $50,000.

Then he flew her home on the same FBI jet.
Same week: a “VIP snorkel” at the underwater tomb of 900 sailors and Marines at Pearl Harbor.

The pattern from the same NYT investigation is now public.

Four SWAT agents and two SUVs guarding his girlfriend in Nashville. The detail estimated at $1 million a year. SWAT escorts to a hair appointment.

An FBI official suggested a threat assessment to determine if any of it was justified. Patel berated him.

A New York Times reporter wrote about the SWAT detail. The FBI opened an investigation into the reporter. The DOJ shut it down and called it retaliation.

What is the FBI for when the FBI Director uses it as a personal concierge service and turns it on the people who notice?

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has one of the few labs in the world which can study Ebola virus.

In March 2025 RFK Jr had it shut down.

We now have a huge Ebola outbreak on our hands.

What a foolish move

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Buttigieg on Sean Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable and then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually what people are so frustrated about."

[Lucy @longbeachlucy]

@RonFilipkowski That, unfortunately, is how I walk...

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Walking in a straight line is hard.

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

The ballroom went from $200 million & privately funded, to $300 million, to $400 million and taxpayers cover some of it, to MAGA trying to silently jam through $1 BILLION, 100% of which is our tax money, for this ballroom.

WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY: Americans discussed May 9 ceasefire with Russians. No one contacted us officially, nothing has been officially proposed. This is Russia’s war against Ukraine. America and Russia are not at war with each other. What ceasefire are they even discussing? It's not serious.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term?

Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…”

Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term.

Silence.

Every single one of them refused to say it.

Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

One good use of the supposed two-week ceasefire is to get back to talking about the Epstein files

[Acyn @Acyn]

Bacon: I think it's a a crazy terrible mistake to go into someone else's country and campaign for one of the candidates over the other. We don't want people interfering in our elections. I guarantee you, the Hungarians don't like the United States going in there and messing with their elections. That's what Russia does. That's what China does. So I would encourage the administration to get the heck out of Hungary.

And what happens if the other side wins? They're going to say, oh, the president, the administration of America supported my opponent. How's that going to play out for years to come? I think it's a dumb mistake

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

If the ceasefire holds (big if), the fairest way to “score” the war in Iran:

- clear operational successes. Large number of IRGC killed, Iranian Navy largely destroyed, etc.

- a massive tactical failure. Iran learned they can bully the Gulf States with impunity. They learned that, absent a ground invasion and a weeks-long naval mine-clearing operation, we can’t do anything to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

They can close it again any time they want and send the world into an economic tailspin.

Iran (so far) retains all of their uranium, and intelligence estimates put their missile stocks in the thousands. They can still launch attacks on the region at a time of their choosing, and they’ve learned they can largely outlast a massive US/Israeli bombing campaign.

TL;DR: we killed a bunch of people and blew up a bunch of stuff, all to end up in a worse position than we were in with Obama’s nuclear deal.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Actual quotes from President Trump:

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully.
March 10: practically nothing left to target
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 6 :a whole civilization will die
April 7: total and complete victory
April8: objectives were met

A true disaster

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

I can’t let go of this story - and these photos.

A dog and a cat were evacuated from the front line by Ukrainian Defenders using a drone. The animals flew more than 12 km and are now safe.

If they made it, then we can do so much more - and we will.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

.@VP should get the heck out of Hungary & focus on Iran. My family is from Hungary—a freedom-loving country that rose up against the Soviets in 1956. Today Orban has aligned Hungary closer to Russia & undermined NATO. Regardless we shouldn't interfere in other countries' elections. That’s what Russia & China do.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Vance: ​“What I would say to both Russians and Ukrainians is we're talking about haggling over a few square kilometers of territory. Is that worth losing hundreds of thousands of additional russian and Ukrainian young men?"

Vance is once again failing to distinguish between the aggressor and the victim, attempting to convince you that it is acceptable to pressure the victim into complying with the aggressor’s demands.

He fails to recognize that he is not only urging Ukraine to surrender territories, but also the people who live there, our homes, and our most fortified defense lines dooming us for future attacks, because this war is not at all about territory, but about Ukraine existence as a state.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something.

For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

The President must be removed.

If Congress is too cowardly to do it, his own Cabinet must.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

A rare moment as a kagu bird on the brink of extinction meets its own kind.. 😊

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

A man adopted this dog whose shelter card declared his love for water, so he brought him to this place..

This was his reaction.. 😊